Obama’s budget increased military spending – more troops to Afghanistan and vague talk about coming home from Iraq sometime in the future. Blatant deficit spending programs with no mention nor notion of how to ever balance a BUDGET. Massive bank bailouts , massive car bailouts, and a Federal Reserve which refuses to tell us where they are spending our money- which administration am I describing?

It could be Bush and or Obama -or Barney Frank or Trent Lott or Teddy Kennedy or Lindsey Graham. They would all do the same things. Fox news and MSNBC might tell you differently but just look at the big picture.

Look at the trend of our national debt under Bush and now Obama – it seems like a drunken race to see who can rape and pillage and bankrupt us the fastest.

-FITS

P.S. – Why is it gay-baiting?

If we do not learn to balance budgets sooner or later a day of reckoning is coming. As what I call – in my VERY hubmle opinion – a real fiscal conservative, I am for moderate tax increases and big government spending CUTS in order to get our nations fiscal house in order. Now given, you would get booed out of the state for advocating such a position, but it is the kind of pragmatism I think we need right now.

Is it intended to make a point? Please explain.

Or Lindsey may stick that bayonet up your @rse.

Fiscal conservatives are one thing. Fiscal wackos are another.

Please don’t ask us to explain, because sic(k) willie has posted enough ultra right wing wacko cr@p on this blog to choke a porn star. Right, Howie?

It is unlikely that sic(k) willie is capable of choking a porn star. Perhaps he could kick one around with broken furniture, but he could not choke her.

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Great point.

‘Tax and spend’ may be an fair characterization of Democrats’ fiscal policy, but ‘borrow and spend’ is an fair characterization of Republicans’ fiscal policy. I wouldn’t call that fiscal conservatism, I’d call it fiscal irresponsibility.

And while the Democrats raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for the spending is berated as being awful for economic growth, let’s remember the Clinton years.

The longest period of peacetime economic growth happened under Clinton’s tax rates, with budget surpluses and debt reduction.

I just wish we had some more John Spratts in D.C.

Good points … and we’ve never advocated tax cuts in isolation. In fact, from the article you just commented on, we proposed that the GOP cap spending and do a whole host of other fiscal conservative things.

-FITS